January 2010
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Landscape of despondency as bureaucrats rebuild... →
THIS should be a time of progress and optimism in the remote Aboriginal communities of the Northern Territory.
In a bid to take the true pulse of the central Australian bush and gauge the effect of the latest reform program, 2 1/2 years since the initial intervention on John Howard’s watch, Inquirer this month made a 3000km journey through the far reaches of the Western Desert,...
Sen. McCain — If Not Now, When? →
In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama said his administration would work with Congress and the military this year to finally repeal the discriminatory and counterproductive…
Massive tidal energy project mooted for Darwin →
A Darwin-based company has plans for a tidal energy project worth up to $900 million in the Clarence Strait between the Northern Territory mainland and the Tiwi Islands.
Sharp’s Solar Hybrid cellphones coming to China... →
Eco Factor: Sustainable cellphone powered by onboard solar panels. Just a year after Sharp launched its solar-powered cellphone in Japan, the company is now taking it to China. The company…
Punggol to serve as a ‘living laboratory’ for... →
Eco Factor: Punggol to be converted into a renewable energy powered eco-town. Singapore’s Housing and Development Board have planned to develop Punggol as the first eco-town to help it…
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Gen Y urges smarter green future - ABC News... →
Larissa Brown is not your typical, much-maligned Generation Y disinterested Australian.
She runs Melbourne’s Centre for Sustainability Leadership, which aims to steer young people who care about sustainability and social equity into positions of influence such as future green politicians, green artists and green engineers.
UC Berkeley researchers hack tobacco plants to... →
Eco Factor: Synthetic solar cells grown on tobacco plants. Researchers at UC Berkeley have found a way to hack tobacco plants to grow synthetic photovoltaic and photochemical cells that…
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Internet filter 'poses threat to freedom' →
Hundreds of Australian websites will fade to black this week in protest against the Government’s proposed internet filter.
Docks School by Mikou Design Studio adopts PV... →
Eco Factor: Net zero energy school gets powered by on-site solar panels. Mikou Design Studio has unveiled plans for the Docks School in Saint Ouen, France, which will be a sustainable…
Electrically-driven GRIDCharger concept powers... →
Eco Factor: Concept car runs clean on electric motors. The GRIDCharger by designer Robert Marvin, is a next-generation high-performance family vehicle that features a clean and silent…
What the "I'm Mad-As-Hell" Party Could Do
robertreich:
A third political party is emerging in America. Call it the I’m-Mad-As-Hell party. It’s a mistake to see the Mad-As-Hell party as just a right-wing phenomenon – the so-called Tea Partiers now storming the gates of the Republican Party. There are plenty of mad-as-hellers on the left as well – furious at Wall Street, health insurers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and establishment...
Millionaire plans to transform Detroit into an... →
Eco Factor: Creating farm pods on vacant land in Detroit. With a median family income under $30,000 and unemployment rate at a whopping 27 percent, Detroit is in need of help. While most…
Ironhorse – An affordable housing community... →
Eco Factor: Sustainable housing development powered by solar energy. David Baker + Partners have designed a new affordable housing development in Oakland, California, which will feature 99…
Samoo Architecture unveils eco domes for South... →
Eco Factor: Sustainable greenhouses to preserve the ecosystem. Samoo Architecture has unveiled plans for the Ecorium Project to be developed in South Korea as a part of the upcoming…
“In a ruling that has overwhelming implications for how elections are funded, the...”
– Thom Hartmann (via azspot) (via feinsodville) (via oblast)
Portland treehouse: swanky Hobbit pad →
PeaceLove sez, “The beautiful Wilkinson residence in Portland is a really swanky pad for superrich Hobbits. I haz major wantage.”
Located on a flag lot, a steep sloping grade provided the…
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Portland treehouse: swanky Hobbit pad →
PeaceLove sez, “The beautiful Wilkinson residence in Portland is a really swanky pad for superrich Hobbits. I haz major wantage.”
Located on a flag lot, a steep sloping grade provided the…
Table that transforms into a playhouse →
And you don’t even need a blanket. Ingrid Brandth’s Daily Shelter transforms into a small playhouse. Feeling safe is not necessarily being safe. We feel protected and secure in…
Alt.CES: I can haz hydrogen? →
On the assumption that hydrogen-powered cars (jet packs?) will be commonplace some day, H-hawker Horizon introduced a consumer gadget at CES that converts water into hydrogen and stores…
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our...”
– Mark Twain (via thingssheloves)
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Haiti's real deal with the devil →
Pat Robertson thinks that Haiti is poverty stricken (and earthquake-stricken) because the country made a deal with Satan to help them overthrow the French. Back in May, the Times Online…
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